Kristen is #47 on the IMDb Starmeter this week (4/18/22) Updated Post

While some may regard posting her IMDb ranking as trivial, for me it's a pretty big deal to be ranked in the top 100 every year for the past 13 years, with the thousands of actors working in Hollywood today and during the pandemic as you mentioned, which is a testament to her willpower to never give up acting no matter how difficult if gets.

And one would think that critically acclaimed actresses would be ranked pretty high--which is certainly not the case for many of them. Case in point: Frances McDormand, Viola Davis, Glenn Close, Amanda Seyfried, Maria Bakalova, and Olivia Coleman, all of whom are up for Oscar nominations this year, are ranked way lower on the IMDb Starmeter.

Heck, 4-time Academy Award nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence has been hoovering around 5,000 on the Starmeter, despite her recently completing filming on one of the most anticipated movies of 2021, Don't Look Up, where she costars with Leonardo DiCaprio--a film with an all-star cast which also includes Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Tyler Perry, Gina Gershon and Ron Perlman.

Of course, to be fair, I should mention a couple of well deserving actresses who are ranked higher on the Starmeter this week than Kristen are:

Carey Mulligan at #30 on the IMDb Starmeter. In my opinion, she churned out the best performance of her career and of any actress in 2020 for her role as Casandra in Promising Young Woman. While I knew she was a good actress before watching this, as evidenced by her 5 Oscar nominations, I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the range she exhibited in this film.

Vanesa King at #48 on the IMDb Starmeter. While her performance in her role as Princess Margaret in the Netflix series "The Crown", put her on the map, the performance that should take her to the next level, with regard to Hollywood stardom, is her Oscar nominated performance in "Pieces of a Woman".

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In hindsight, MovieChat is clearly the forum that replaced the now defunct IMDb message boards, so naturally, MovieChat users like you and I often gravitate to IMDb--although I must admit that when IMDb first shut down their boards, I felt like boycotting them entirely.

Reading your comment reminded me of an article I read a while back from Wired magazine entitled "How MovieChat dethroned IMDb as the go-to place to talk TV and films"
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/moderators-movie-chat-imdb
Here are some of my fave excerpts from the article:

When IMDb announced it was closing its message boards in 2017, Jim Smith raced to save them by starting MovieChat. But he and his team of moderators are constantly battling to keep the forums clean

Like many spaces on the internet, the IMDb message boards were plagued by racism, sexism and trolls. Yet despite the bad actors on some forums, the loss of the boards was perceived as a tragic moment in internet history.

Smith believes MovieChat’s boards are now cleaner than IMDb’s, although he admits that it “hasn’t been easy”.

“Movies, TV shows, celebrities and entertainment in general are notoriously difficult topics to moderate,” he says. “These mediums touch upon so many divisive issues in our society and spur contentious debate. That’s what movies are designed to do: make us think, make us question, make us emotional.”

Users are banned from trolling, flaming, spamming, unsolicited advertising, hacking and impersonation, and are prohibited from sharing porn, threats, hate speech, malware and excessive profanity. An offending user first receives a warning and later may be temporarily or permanently banned from the site.

When asked about the worst offender in the site’s history, Smith recalls a troll from the forum’s early days. “We had an abusive user that continually harassed other users and spammed the site for a period of several months,” he says. “This user went through popular movies with female leads and left sexist remarks about the actresses. They went through movies that championed LGBT rights and made explicit homophobic and transphobic comments.

Still, it would be unusual for MovieChat.org to be free of sexism when both the internet and world at large continue to be plagued by misogynists.

So while actresses like Kristen still get their share of trolls here on MovieChat, this is nothing compared to the mind-numbing onslaught of trolling and spamming which occurred on the former IMDb message boards. A case in point is that when Kristen's Twilight films were still in theaters, trolls and spammers came out in force to hijack all of her Twilight message board threads, while some of them knew more about Kristen's films and private life than many of her fans.

And the irony, like you mentioned, was their efforts to shut down conversations about Kristen, backfired, as it helped make her immensely popular.

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#64 is pretty high up there, and I'm sure her Oscar nom is some of the reason. Plus the great praise and positive critiques for her portrayal of Princess Diana of course. Thanks for the update.

I'm seeing a lot of articles about her lately, some with her outfits for the Oscars and recent events, and also about her and her fiancé.

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